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to the ways that some. of our minds. powerful twin blasts showing the capital of russia and republic of dagestan killing one passenger and leaving several injured. souls who and i say were formed bros louder among washington's political elite but intelligence chiefs for main defined warning of drastic consequences of the spying program is tailored to. independence all security london threatens to deny access to its intelligence services its complement of blood yes just separation from the united kingdom. and canadians get the bust of a bitcoin swapping clothes for cash look at why global uses a turning to the stable sign the currency.
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you saw in russia and around the while this is see with me you national and with start with a developing story this hour at least one has been killed and several wondered off to explosions ripped through to neighboring shops and russia's southern region of dagestan. joins me now live with the latest you go alone do we know about what's happened so far. according to preliminary reports so these were two blasts which took place in the center of the entrances. bring shops so you just said and reportedly one person has been killed several others were injured we don't know the exact numbers yet but we do know that they are being treated by doctors right now. services are working they're in the
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area looking for other explosive devices to prevent any more explosions possible explosions from taking place and is one of the most volatile russian republics in the caucasus. right out easy for us can all thank you very much indeed for that update and of course we will keep you posted on this developing story and thank you . in the u.s. political opinion towards these spying practices that cause a storm of global criticism looks to be shifting both republicans and democrats have called for reform of the n.s.a. with lawmakers proposing a ban on the agency collecting data in bulk intelligence communities however strongly opposed it is much more important for this country that we defend this nation and take the beatings. that it is to give up a program that would result in this nation being attacked testifying before the
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house intelligence committee and a say director general keith alexander forcefully warned against limiting the surveillance program this fear was a code by the u.s. intelligence chief who said reforms would lead to greater risks this is all happening against a bank drop of a growing diplomatic row with america's e.u. allies demanding answers are validations their citizens and leaders were spied on our european correspondent us our senior brings us the details. there is a delegation of the u. officials and separately a delegation of german officials who are in washington to speak with the members of the u.s. administration as well as intelligence chiefs to discuss this latest revelation in this case of national security agency's a spying operations on up to thirty five world leaders including german chancellor angela merkel as well as allegedly tens of millions of the french and spanish citizens as well now the outrage in europe has been palpable we have on the
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liverpool having said that the confidence of our country towards the u.s. has been quote unquote that we also remember the a recent to e.u. official statement talking highlighting the distrust that this these allegations have actually created and all of this anger spilling over not just in terms of diplomacy but also in the transatlantic deal so many things calling for the stalling of that so we see a direct impact of the consequences of these allegations but the frustration right now is not just going one way because there are also frustrated reactions coming from the u.s. the n.s.a. chief having said that the nato allies that willingly shared that information with the u.s. and then he said that these allegations of widespread spying were in fact completely falls and misunderstood by recruits as well as reporters that regardless of there's still a very strong impetus from the e.u. to push the u.s. to adopt a new overseas a surveillance guidelines into the e.u. already back stricter new guidelines on the data sharing with third parties
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especially the united states and europeans in the past two weeks they've really adamant that they need a rethink of the intelligence process this is what they're hoping to get out of this and need to give the u.s. of this visit to washington seems to be a step towards that direction. the white house has already made steps to coattail the n.s.a. in particular during eavesdropping on the u.n. headquarters in new york to be reduced but to what extent does the us president actually control the agency's excessive issues and how aware was he of spying on europe's leaders and citizens some of the questions raised in peace in the bowels of latest episode of course talk coming up next but here's a taste. corny the president's spokesman said is the president knew nothing about it however the n.s.a. is doing a great job what they're doing anyway so it really does raise some very troubling issues does the president have control over the n.s.a. does seem no. i mean even more seriously was this an operation approved under
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president george w. bush that's gone on and they've not bothered to inform the president of the united states is being run by remote control by a group of corrupt companies and these companies want the n.s.a. to find out secrets trade secrets from all the companies in the world this is this is what they're doing this is unacceptable the american people deserve a better government than this. and it's not just america's spying that's been the focus of media attention and time in newspapers have published claims over russia this is as host of the recent twenty summit. during the g. twenty summit which took place in st petersburg this year guests including political leaders world leaders have received gifts backs which continued to flash cards as well as phone chargers which according to the newspapers are essentially
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supply where now these allegations have already been denied by the presidential spokesman a russian presidential spokesman who said that as a matter of fact it looks like. just an attempt to sway the attention away from real problems towards imaginary ones and because the newspapers and particularly sites in any of their stores specifically is that a fact italian government itself is already starting to look into these allegations in order to find out where exactly their. the british government is pushing hard to persuade schools that independence is not the way to go and the home secretary is now warning that by a growing it scotland may lose access to intelligence services leaving it at a greater risk lower smith has started the claims for us. she says that any scottish independence words undermine the fight against organized crime cyber attacks terrorism and things like that because scotland would have to build up its
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own security infrastructure that would no longer necessarily have access to intelligence that comes from the u.k. or indeed from other countries that currently. information the scottish national party has said that it's ok declaring independence for scotland would reduce the risk of terrorist attacks because it says that as part of its independence part it would get rid of the nuclear arsenal on its submarines and it would also not take part in any more what it calls in legal wars it's really the latest in a series of kind of threats and speculations both sides of this the scottish national party in scotland and the parliament here in westminster have been tapping into these kind of emotive issues so the s.n.p. uses these age old rivalries between between scotland between england and scotland and also taps into this nationalist sentiment meanwhile the westminster parliament
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which obviously wants the u.k. to stay together fought stuff like this in the past it said or if scotland declares independence you won't necessarily be able to use the pound anymore you might have to apply to join the euro you probably wouldn't be automatically in the european union in nato so this is just another one of those things if you do if scotland declares independence it will be worse off as a westminster parliament scotland has already called this irresponsible it says it's politicizing security and antiterrorism and scottish national party member has called this project fear. and mcneil from the scottish national party joins me now live from london to discuss the prospects of scottish independence and find out how much he's worried about this statements coming from the u.k. government mr mcneil welcome to artie's good to have you with us so if scotland does go it alone if there it does choose independence is that it actually
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reasonable for london to count its ties with scotland or do you think. we're as committed celtic festival that scotland another celtic nations give to the world and i think mrs mason but as yourself it's a very bad helloween character of course we are how bored in my side of the argument by the need to make sense to use logic but this is me is not constrained by any of these. it's basically project for yourself again from mrs majors and bollix yourself badly in the way philip hammond the defenders of the defense minister did a few weeks ago when he was instructed to be nobody believes this stuff if anybody did it they would be how we partake in the streets of reykjavik brussels copenhagen stockholm helsinki. report that was me has produced which will always frankly drivel but do you actually think that the statement from the home secretary would affect the polls. so you see that again yes of course
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i'm trying to ask about the reaction from this country do you think that this latest statement from the home secretary could affect the polls. well nobody in scotland will take this seriously at all it's another of a long series of nonsense basically from the u.k. government or u.k. government that has no positive out of it nothing sensible to see it all mrs may will be followed by some other calamity cologne in another couple of weeks time saying something equally stupid and really patronized in the scottish people listen the reality is this nine hundred forty five fifty one states were in the united nations that are one hundred ninety three and if they're all to listen to mrs made all that all be knocking at the door of london to say please london can we be run from you see the economic disadvantage scotland is not in comparison to the scandinavian the nordic countries and they do not want to be in that situation and coming up with frankly laughable scares to the evil of right wing commentators and
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people who are not going to voting for independence and walking misses me in scotland today for the for the nonce that she's come up with this is the u.k. government that should be doing an awful lot better than this this should have something positive to say but on the serious note you know when scotland's independent we will cooperate with them and we will look to maximize benefits for them for london and we just hope that the u.k. government who will do the same it will wake up to this reality sooner rather than later and act in a fashion but what about scotland and self are you not afraid your security will be left vulnerable to terrorists. not at all no i think that one of the most important things we would be doing in scotland is what the u.k. has been doing in the example of the iraq war is getting ourselves involved in illegal conflicts you know where you kill leaders tony blair should be visited many european cities perhaps he should have visited the heat for his conduct in iraq starting would not get him into that situation scotland looks to be and wants to be a good neighbor on the global neighborhood and not a neighbor that is a nuisance neighborhood on the social behavior or the put upon it and that is the
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behavior that the u.k. government has left citizens exposed to and how they behaved in a way that the scottish national party would want them to behave ten years ago we'd all be a lot safer to do scotland will be behaving irresponsibly in a way that the majority of the nations of europe believe and not in the with the we've seen recently from me you could governments which is front frankly shameful right. from the scottish national party mr mcneil thank you very much indeed for your insight thank you thank you a great pleasure thank you. and of course we're back with more news for you after the shot break. if we look at the history of the o.p.c. w. and it's in danger man say in the past with the united states best there is a history all let's say intimidation on many collation whatever you call it if
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indeed though we find that president assad is lying or cheating and i and doubtful if you'll do that because his life was really on the line in the probably life of the whole regime then of course then i think a military strike could take place. drama's good chance be ignored to the. stories of others who refused to notice. the food since changing the world writes no. food picture of today's you know. from roads to blow. up to.
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this is our see life from moscow welcome back. bitcoins for last ever asiana has gone live clients in vancouver can oust their digital currency for real cash so what is bitcoin and how can you turn a computer code into physical money as have a low basically it's a currency used for online transactions to use at client set up web wallets hiding their names behind additional code the payment can still be trays that making a transfer happens in a few mouse clicks bonks middlemen and taxing agencies are left out reducing fees next you choose whether to shop online using bitcoins or sell them for any other official currency like dollars euros etc the concept remains extremely vulnerable to volatile exchange rates bitcoins are collected through a process called a mining it has nothing to do with my new labor though rather
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a train of computers cranks crowds and gets coins in exchange and now but talk up from the foundation for economic education explains why he finds the technology presses your go this time i thought it was and say well this is just another technology you know that come along every few days and it's lame hour so i'm a fairly recent convert the more i look into it the more confident i'm getting that the future monetary system is crude cryptography and this kind of crypto market based currency it's quite spectacular and i tell you it only takes a few times you simply realize this is incredibly easy it's much much easier. and there's no danger of fraud or identity theft or all these other things that come with the old fashioned credit card system it's just a superior technology. the u.s. has its reasons to hand of a bit coin expansion it's been labeled
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a currency for online activities like gambling and even gunrunning and the exchange rate is the bomb that tile the low point came in january this year when the value was just thirteen dollars six hundred sixty six two hundred sixty six dollars has been the highest point and it took just a few months to get bad before fading and let's hope despite the ups and downs jeffrey taka believes it's here to stay really it's funny that to be an alternative currency and there's no reason why it can't itself become a means of capping that calculation so you can do your accounting that in fact people do this all the time and you can enter into the economy because fear and live a wonderful life meaning that you can bypass government currency entirely that the u.s. is now restricting what's called money exchange businesses so there's so much high costs associated with a.t.m.'s it doesn't surprise me that it started in canada or the us the us will lose out if it continues this trend towards regulating
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cryptocurrency. so bitcoin may be only four years old but it's already had more than its fair share of controversy the currency materialized into a thousand and nine created by students researchers and hobbits a year on there was a famous sale where somebody bought perhaps the world's most expensive pizza for ten thousand bitcoins and some now worth more than two million dollars by two thousand to eleven bitcoins value had gone up a thousand fold a single piece was selling for more than the british pound european year and american dollar at this point more than a thousand online merchants and organizations like the could be easier or accepting bitcoins as payment and donations earlier this year the big coin market top of the billion dollar mark and is believed to have grown by another five hundred million since that the net wide adoption of the bitcoin was picked up on by financial sorties worldwide eager to tax and regulate this new phenomenon and money
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laundering concerns and shady online activities last month saw online black market silk road raided and shut down by the f.b.i. after a session million dollars worth of bitcoins were seized during the operation but mitchell demonstrated the to be quite officer a bit corny accts says the currency is only getting stronger as a result. we've got anti money laundering policy in place where we limit users to three thousand dollars per day every transaction you make is recorded on a public ledger your name is attached to it but if somebody wants to find out who is making that transaction it can be done the silk road is a perfect example of the end of shutting down the silk road and the black market e.-bay and actually shut down which is actually a very good thing for the currency as a whole as a lot of people associate it associated big going just directly with the silk road and so since it's been shut down the currency did about ten percent for both twelve
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hours and since then people realize that it's not just about the black market and it's actually a legitimate currency and it's actually got over one hundred percent since then. under most stories waiting on line including an opportunity not to be missed the u.k. hopes to billions in arab investment by becoming the first european state to islamic bonds had to ante dot com for more. and also bad families and friends reunited after israel releases twenty six palestinian prisoners called the touching pictures and now invision section.
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in the u.k. is a rethinking its policy towards green energy taxation the prime minister pledge to count so-called green and levies which i'd have to some to ensure bells. went to find out why the move is being bothered by maturity of the public. joking about the weather may be a british foible but nowadays it can make or break a household budget winter is setting in as our announcements that energy prices are all set to rise yes again now roughly ten percent of the few cases average household energy bill is made up of so-called green taxes and the prime minister david cameron has pledged to do away with them in order to help out struggling brits now the ideas proved popular for a country battling with austerity according to a recent poll by savation some sixty percent of brits object to having to shell out for the green levies because. for the first the world you know so about what it is
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costing we've only seen if it's way through cheaper things to go to really not prefer that very cold sort of profits an option really which is to tax that noise very well spoken never said let's see bills come down to hear us rush out of the drought opposition leader ed miliband says that green levy's aunt to blame for britain's high energy prices for the government figures show that green taxes adds one hundred twelve pounds to the average household energy bill in the u.k. now roughly half that money goes toward supporting cleaner greener energy such as solar panels like the ones like eight on the roof of london's blackfriars train station but is the latest survey shows for the brits counting the pennies to keep warm this winter and concern for the environment is going to have to come in second for now polly boy arty london some news and bring this on police have
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clashed with supporters of president morsi after the end of the compass of the us high university in cairo this couple's following yesterday's protest of the same place with protesters in hunting assisting the deposed president to still be legitimate leader discounters a definition leader of the pro morsi muslim brotherhood. freedom and justice party was arrested he's likely to stand trial alongside morsi and some of his other key supporters next monday. wrote us or ruptured an anchorite against turkey's conservative government on the country's republic day police used tear gas to stop people notching towards taksim square as part of celebrations the day last in line to sign of us rule of the turkish republic which was founded by mustafa out of the riots following yesterday's clashes with police over the government's refusal to detain a policeman accused of killing a protester. or suicide attacks targeting soldiers and militants
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have killed twelve people in a rug and injured at least nineteen the fast explosion hit a sunni leader attending a celebration dinner in northern baghdad the second blast in mosul saw a suicide bomber detonated his car near a police checkpoint more than seven thousand people have been killed in violence inside iraq this year. the start of the twenty four c. in sochi winter olympics is now just one hundred days away the international olympic committee paid a visit to the host city to see for himself how preparations are growing paul scald has more now from such. the new president of the international olympic committee thomas bach has been insulted all week so mark one hundred days until the start of the games and he's just given one of his first interview since being appointed in the new role he gave it to you now we sat down and discussed a whole host of issues surrounding the sochi games notably of course the so-called gay propaganda law here in russia the planning of nontraditional sexual relations
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to mine is now a monday president putin said that everyone is welcome in sochi regardless of sexual orientation and this is the message about house for spectators and they're concerned about the law they can be. the. olympic games in sochi would be free of any kind of. discrimination that the olympic charter will apply so that the president putin are welcome in sochi to celebrate excellent olympic winter games altogether but also. told me that the i.o.c. have complete confidence that all of venues will be completed come the opening ceremony on the february the seventh but he did reiterate his earlier point before the organizers the final one hundred days in the lead up to the games set to be the busiest. and up next i know for you mine is woman home but schools in
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ukraine interesting. to me the national security agency has taken months of scandal embarrassing lies to get obama and his administration to this point what is clear is the following obama is unaware of the extent of n.s.a. surveillance or he remains on. truthful with the american people and the world in the end it's all about trust. live.
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